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River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters) Book

Nearly a century and a half after Charles Darwin formulated it, the theory of evolution is still the subject of considerable debate. Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins is among Darwin's chief defenders, and an able one indeed--witty, literate, capable of turning a beautiful phrase. In River Out of Eden he introduces general readers to some fairly abstract problems in evolutionary biology, gently guiding us through the tangles of mitochondrial DNA and the survival-of-the- fittest ethos. (Superheroes need not apply: Dawkins writes, "The genes that survive . . . will be the ones that are good at surviving in the average environment of the species.") Dawkins argues for the essential unity of humanity, noting that "we are much closer cousins of one another than we normally realise, and we have many fewer ancestors than simple calculations suggest." --Christine Buttery Read More

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    The Number One SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author Richard Dawkins.

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    The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information ' he writes. Using this perspective he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place gradually but inexorably over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve' and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.

  • 1857994051
  • 9781857994056
  • Richard Dawkins
  • 20 May 2001
  • Phoenix
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
  • Reissued 2001
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